Madrid Friday Night Skate

MADRID FRIDAY NIGHT SKATE

From August 2017 on, a group of local skaters have launched an initiative in Madrid which is already in place in many Spanish and European cities: the Friday Night Skate

The Friday Night Skate is a weekly skating tour through the city streets that takes place every Friday evening. Over the past few years, this event has been held in several Spanish cities such as San Sebastian and Barcelona and, for over a decade, in different European cities including Paris, Berlin, Warsaw, London and Amsterdam.

The Local Authorities of these cities give green light to the skaters to carry out their tours every Friday night. The tours are organized by young skaters who take care of the proper development of the event and who are responsible of ensuring the safety and security of the participants.

In the midst of the struggle against Madrid’s pollution, we the skaters aim for an environmentally friendly city, respectful with the health of its citizens; a city providing alternative, cleaner means of transport and eventually, a city where the political discourse finally moves from words to action. For this reason, we have resolved to constitute an Association for claiming our city to be more modern, less polluted and more open to mobility, to sport and to skating as a leisure activity, and which, overall, encourages the traffic cohabitation.

Daft of the new Mobility Ordinance for the City of Madrid
Download the draft here.
https://decide.madrid.es/system/documents/attachments/000/000/259/original/716ca31c49ed6b78dcf61ed8eb65b5a535a5459d.pdf

What do we skaters want in Madrid?

We want to be allowed to run at least once a month our own skating tour, the Madrid Friday Night Skate, without the need to ask for authorization each time and without fear of being fined for gathering too many people together in the street.

The City Council of Madrid makes the platform Madrid Decide available to its citizens, where another campaign will be launched. We will inform you through our newsletter as soon as it is ready and, if you legally reside in Madrid, you can also support it with your signature.

If the necessary supports are reached, the city council will consider our proposal. In the meantime, you can collaborate actively with us by sharing your suggestions and opinions regarding the draft of the new Mobility Ordinance.In case you are not from Madrid, we would appreciate if you could visit the web and share your impressions on the new Mobility Ordinance for the city. ¡This will be really helpful for us!

If you are a resident of Madrid, you can sign the petition at Madrid Decide in this link.

Sign link here
https://decide.madrid.es/proposals/21543-madrid-friday-night-skate-propuesta-de-paseo-nocturno-en-patines

The principal aims of the Madrid Association of Skaters (APM, Asociación de Patinadores de Madrid) are:

-Organize a skating tour through the city suitable for everybody and which anyone who is ready to have fun can join.

• Obtain approval to legally use the skates as an environment-friendly and sustainable transport mode in the city, setting the proper criteria to allow the use of skates in the cycle lanes on the road and in the cycle lanes in the pavement, as bicycles already do.
  -Promote skating as a healthy, social and popular sport and leisure activity.

Pagina Oficial de la APM (Official APM Website)
http://patinadoresmadrid.org
Redes Sociales APM (APM Social Networks )
Facebook: http://patinadoresmadrid.org
Twitter: https://twitter.com/patinadoresMAD
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/patinadoresmadrid/?hl=es